Interludes: Black Balloons at Tate Modern

<p><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/interludes-black-balloons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Interludes: Black Balloons</em>&nbsp;</a>is a new sound installation by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié now showing at <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/interludes-black-balloons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tate Gallery.</a> Responding to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/artist-and-society/liz-johnson-artur" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Liz Johnson Artur’s display&nbsp;<em>Time don’t run here</em></a>, the piece references Artur’s Black Lives Matter protest images and works from her ongoing Black Balloon Archive documenting people in Africa, and of the African and Caribbean diasporas. </p><br><p>Experience&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/liz-johnson-artur-30728" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Liz Johnson Artur’s</a>&nbsp;work with the ear and body. How does sound change how you see the works? What pulses through you when you see the images, braille and thread? </p><br><p>The soundscape features the voices of Liz Johnson Artur, artists Imogen Faires and Jamel Alatise from Theatre Peckham, and Research and Interpretation Artist Resident,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.marieesmith.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marie Smith</a>. It includes extracts from&nbsp;<em>Poetry as Protest, Protest as Poetry,</em>&nbsp;a poem by Faires and Alatise responding to the display and performed live at Tate Modern in April 2023.</p><br><p>Visit the installation at Tate Modern, Natalie Bell Building, Level 2 West Room 4, Artist and Society. Black Balloons will play in the gallery at the following times: 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 4.00pm, 5.00pm.</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HUESxDu3KAS6SLZewRsAt?si=087ec7d3a86e43ad&amp;nd=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Interludes</a>&nbsp;is an ongoing sound collaboration between Lou Mensah of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.shadepodcast.co.uk/" rel="noo